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ng; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

In a manner to give aid. [R.]

To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being prese…

One who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." Motley.

A helper; an assistant.

A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.

A female helper or assistant. [R.]

An assistant. [R.] Yelverton.

The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant. It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. Tobit viii. 6.

One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office. Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor.

An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [Obs.] Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

An assistant; a helper.

A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten.

A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]

A bailiff's assistant.

icularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

An assistant in a shop or store. [U. S.]

An assistant. R. North.